"Scott Foust, Rich Labrie, Mike Popvich and Chris Scarpino's first venture in no wave rock music, back in 1981. This is their final session from 20 april 1981 and released as a tour item for The Tobacconists April 2012 tour." (label info) more »

"This is a twenty minute companion piece to the LP ini.itu will be releasing at the same time. All works on this LP and this 3" deal with the processed sounds of the Indonesian gamelan, in three entirely different pieces of music. 'Redux & Finale' is the most quiet, ...
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"In 2006 The Idealist (Joachim Nordwall) and Freiband (Frans de Waard) met up in studio 4 of the EMS studios in Stockholm and looked at the mighty Bucla machine. Two days were spend on taping sounds from this machine with the prospect of doing a record together. For ...
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"A culmination of two line recordings and one live recording from two recent concerts at Etalage (Nijmegen) and Tape (Arnhem). The assignment was: don't bring your laptop and do something with the BBC Radiophonic workshop in mind. I brought five synthesizers and a ...
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"Kubus Kassettes, later to be called Kubus Kommunikaties, claimed to be the very first Dutch cassette label. Their first release was a pretty standard sort of rock release, but right then, after that, Kubus started to release experimental music. They were different to ...
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"Recently Jos Smolders turned 50 and invited some friends over a beer and cake. Oh and some to play to music, Orphax, Staplerfahrer and Zebra. Since the other two will release their piece on a CDR, Zebra made an edit to fit on a 3" CDR of their festitive piece. Three ...
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"Wouter Jaspers and Frans de Waard will be on tour again in November and in order to prepare this, they went into the studio, recorded some great music and then decided to something else on the road afterwards. The studio sessions consisted on playing on all the ...
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"In 2010 the old and the new meet up, at least. The old, represented by Frans de Waard (Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen, Goem, Zebra, Freiband and god knows what else) joins forces with the twenty years younger peer Wouter Jaspers (Franz Fjodor, 4DaLadiez and Vatican Analog ...
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"On February 14th 2010 Machinefabriek and Frans de Waard played each a solo concert at Berlin's Rote Salon. Afterwards they played a collaborative concert as Machinefabriek and Freiband. Taking the material from their previous collaboration a bit further, adding new ...
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"This release is part of the German magazine Bad Alchemy 65, for their subscribers only. Copies are also for sale by me. Its basically a mega-mix of various releases on My Own Little Label, multi-layered and quite dense." (label info) more »

"Last year My Own Little Label released 'Haze Shrapnel', a new piece by Bass Communion and a remix of that by Freiband as a 3"CDR. Already back then it was agreed that there should also be a release by Freiband with a remix by Bass Communion. Due to the immense success ...
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"a re-issue of 2003 Freiband piece. It was back then released by Poland's Mik Musik, and part of a series of five (if I am not mistaken) remixes of source material I totally forgot about. Its a seventeen minute piece of laptop music processing." (label info) more »

"the longest piece Beequeen ever submitted to a compilation,'Guru Means Slayer Of Darkness', back in 1996 on Manifold. Its been out of print for quite some time, but both me and Freek think this is a great old, and lost Beequeen piece, so we decided to re-issue it. It ...
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"Concert from feburay 2009 in Heerlen. In 2008 I composed three pieces for compilations which all deal with the sound of hiss from old cassettes, and some 'field recordings' from faulty cassette mechanisms. Two of those pieces have been released already, on 'Lasting' ...
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"A live recording from Extrapool, January 10th 2009. Live sound is being up by three microphones and three cassette players and then fed back into the mix. A slightly edited version." (label info) more »

"I have been in contact with Steven Wilson off and on for quite a while. Recentely he wrote me, we traded some CDs and he liked my little enterprise. He had a spare track of 12 minutes and 'if I want to release it'. 'Sorry, and why not do a remix then', as Freiband. ...
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"Rutger asked me to play on the same night as he did in Leeuwarden and 'if I could incorporate some text'. I asked Dmitry Vasiljev of Monochrome Vision to speak a short Mayakovsky text, in Russian of course, and this 3" captures the slightly edited concert." (label ...
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